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1. The part of the nervous system of vertebrates that controls involuntary actions of the smooth muscles and heart and glands.
4. A tax on employees and employers that is used to fund the Social Security system.
8. Counting the number of white and red blood cells and the number of platelets in 1 cubic millimeter of blood.
11. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac insects.
12. Large sweet juicy hybrid between tangerine and grapefruit having a thick wrinkled skin.
13. The longer of the two telegraphic signals used in Morse code.
14. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
15. A unit of length of thread or yarn.
17. A hard gray lustrous metallic element that is highly corrosion-resistant.
18. The capital and largest city of Yemen.
20. A member of the Siouan people of the Arkansas river valley in Arkansas.
22. The imperial dynasty of China from 1122 to 221 BC.
24. A state in midwestern United States.
25. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
28. A light strong brittle gray toxic bivalent metallic element.
29. Someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike.
32. Cuban dancer and choreographer (born in 1921).
36. (informal) Of the highest quality.
37. A public promotion of some product or service.
38. A unit of magnetomotive force equal to 0.7958 ampere-turns.
40. A bachelor's degree in science.
45. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part of an organism.
47. One of the most common of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
50. An amino acid that is found in the central nervous system.
52. A white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light.
53. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
54. According to the Old Testament he was a pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel (9th century BC).
55. A silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite.
56. Type genus of the Anatidae.
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1. By bad luck.
2. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeastern India and western Burma.
3. The act of scanning.
4. A family of languages of the Fula people of west Africa in the sub-Sahara regions from Senegal to Chad.
5. One of the five major classes of immunoglobulins.
6. A group of followers hired to applaud at a performance.
7. The branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively.
8. Being one hundred more than three hundred.
9. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad.
10. A wad of something chewable as tobacco.
16. Above the surround or above the normal position.
19. A radioactive element of the actinide series.
21. Large burrowing rodent of South and Central America.
23. A slender double-reed instrument.
26. Being ten more than one hundred forty.
27. A heavy odorless colorless gas formed during respiration and by the decomposition of organic substances.
30. A highly unstable radioactive element (the heaviest of the halogen series).
31. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali earth group.
33. Tag the base runner to get him out.
34. Interface consisting of a standard port between a computer and its peripherals that is used in some computers.
35. A unit of absorbed ionizing radiation equal to 100 ergs per gram of irradiated material.
39. Pompous or pretentious talk or writing.
40. Airtight sealed metal container for food or drink or paint etc..
41. Any of numerous local fertility and nature deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peoples.
42. (statistics) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value.
43. A small cake leavened with yeast.
44. A river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea.
46. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
48. Aircraft landing in bad weather in which the pilot is talked down by ground control using precision approach radar.
49. A federal agency established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products.
51. The blood group whose red cells carry both the A and B antigens.
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